Syracuse man gets five years in prison for burglary

A Syracuse man shot during a neighborhood dispute during which his brother was killed last year was sentenced today for breaking into a neighbor's home during another dispute last fall.

Timothy Maeweather, 28, of 247 Seneca Drive, was sentenced to five years in state prison for a first-degree burglary conviction.

The burglary charge stemmed from Nov. 27 when Maeweather was accused of kicking in the door to his downstairs neighbor's apartment and threatening to kill her and her family. The victim told police Maeweather had blamed her son and son-in-law for breaking into his mother's apartment.

Albert Maeweather was shot and killed June 25 during a confrontation with a neighbor on Kenmore Avenue. A county grand jury concluded in October that the neighbor, Jasper Lemon Jr., acted in self defense in firing several shots out a second-floor window as a group of people were trying to break into his home.